Blackboard

For this blog post I will deviate from my usual topics and discuss the Blackboard Academic Suite. Blackboard is the system that Union College uses to facilitate interaction between teachers and students. The system is good in that it provides a semi-unified system where users can receive and submit information for their classes. I'm hesitant to say that the system is completely unified because not all classes use it. While this is not technically a design fault its still inconvenient to goto different systems for different classes.

Blackboard Academic Suite - Macroeconomics

Another annoyance is the fact that the button layout is not standardized between classes. For example the above is for my macroeconomics class while this is for my econometrics class.